School: Poor Clares' Convent, Cavan
- Location:
- Cavan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Carmel
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- (continued from previous page)Farnham, where, up to a few years ago they were called soupers or bacon-eaters.
- We don't want to beg,
Be jingo if we do,
We got the meal,
We got the coal,
We got the blankets too,
Here's a health to Lord Farnham
You sent us in the beef,
And fifty pounds to Cavan's Poor Relief.
This poem was composed in the time of the famine. In Cavan the people used to go to the fields and get turnips and bring them home and roast them to eat them. The men built the jail wall for one penny(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nóirín O Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cavan, Co. Cavan